Iran Air announced yesterday that it has confirmed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) from June as a firm order. The deal includes 50 737 MAX 8s, 15 777-300ERs and 15 777-9s, which are valued at $16.6 bi...
IATA and Fitch Ratings have commented on the strong year for airlines and are predicting another good year for 2017, but are the clouds gathering on the horizon? The mood in the industry today is turn...
Oil prices rose over 8% across the board yesterday as OPEC agreed to cut production by 1.2 million barrels a day from 33.6 million – the first agreement in some seven years. The expectation now is tha...
Well here we are on the cusp of December and no doubt a very interesting 2017. Next year, what are the main issues we should be worrying about? Well, the same things that we usually worry about: polit...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled today that Boeing has received illegal state tax breaks from the US Government in 2013 to produce the 777X. The US has been ordered to withdraw illegal sta...
Boeing finally put an end to the rumours that have engulfed Seattle for the past few months with the news that Ray Conner is to be replaced as president and head of commercial airplanes with Kevin McA...
Two aviation industry leaders have launched a new commercial aircraft leasing company, AVi8 Air Capital, which will be headquartered in Dublin with a commercial office in Miami. Co-founders, Ray Sisso...
Goshawk Aviation has completed its debut unsecured US$95 million Schuldschein issuance. The issuance consists of three- and five-year tranches and proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes....
United Airlines is moving to protect its market share from the ultra-low-cost carriers (ULCCs) with the further segmentation of the cabin with the introduction of a basic economy product. This will in...
The Aviation 100 Awards survey will remain open for a few more weeks and we desperately need your votes to ensure we have a representative view of the state of the industry. Every vote counts so pleas...
AerCap has announced today that John Wikoff will be stepping down as Head of Investor Relations and transfer this position to Brian Canniffe. Wikoff joined AerCap in November 2014 to assume the role o...
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